Dolin Vs GSK - The Dunbar Tape

As promised, here's more evidence that surfaced last week at the Dolin Vs GSK Paxil Induced Suicide trial.

This video features Dr. Geoffrey Dunbar, an executive at GlaxoSmithKline between 1987-97. His job was to oversee all the Paxil clinical trial results. He also helped author drafts regarding Paxil suicides, these drafts were later passed on to the FDA.

The data showed a 9-fold increase in suicidality with patients taking Paxil. Remarkably, the report sent to the FDA showed the complete opposite, in fact, the report showed the FDA that Paxil actually prevented suicide!

In the 2005 video deposition, Dunbar admits his reports included improperly counted suicidal behavior events and that publications in which he participated writing had incorrectly conveyed Paxil reduced suicidal behavior.

In essence, GlaxoSmithKline, along with the help of Dunbar, spun a 9-fold increase in suicide related events for patients taking Paxil to zero suicide related events.

For doctors and patients this meant that Paxil could hit the market with no concerns, and even if someone did kill themselves whilst taking Paxil, the event would be blamed on the person's illness rather than the Paxil they were taking.

In the video below you will hear Dunbar say that it was "an error" that the suicide figures were wrong. That's some error, right? On one hand the data shows a 9-fold increase in suicide related events for patients on Paxil, yet the complete opposte ended up in a draft to the FDA.

Furthermore, upon learning of his "error" he, to date (2005) had still not informed GlaxoSmithKline officials. He just 'assumed' that GSK had rectified a published article that he co-wrote, an article that he admitted, under oath, would have "presumably" influenced the people who read it.

So, there you go then. Paxil was promoted as being safe, when in actual fact GSK knew it was dangerous.